Niklaus Emil Wirth (born 15 February 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist.
In 1984, he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages. ==Biography== Wirth was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1934.
In 1959, he earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in electronic engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich).
In 1960, he earned a Master of Science (MSc) from Université Laval, Canada.
Then in 1963, he was awarded a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from the University of California, Berkeley, supervised by the computer design pioneer Harry Huskey. From 1963 to 1967, he served as assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University and again at the University of Zurich.
Then in 1963, he was awarded a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from the University of California, Berkeley, supervised by the computer design pioneer Harry Huskey. From 1963 to 1967, he served as assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University and again at the University of Zurich.
Then in 1968, he became Professor of Informatics at ETH Zürich, taking two one-year sabbaticals at Xerox PARC in California (1976–1977 and 1984–1985).
In 1994, he was inducted as a Fellow of the ACM. ==Publications== His book, written jointly with Kathleen Jensen, The Pascal User Manual and Report, served as the basis of many language implementation efforts in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States and across Europe. His article Program Development by Stepwise Refinement, about the teaching of programming, is considered to be a classic text in software engineering.
In 1975, he wrote the book Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, which gained wide recognition.
In 1994, he was inducted as a Fellow of the ACM. ==Publications== His book, written jointly with Kathleen Jensen, The Pascal User Manual and Report, served as the basis of many language implementation efforts in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States and across Europe. His article Program Development by Stepwise Refinement, about the teaching of programming, is considered to be a classic text in software engineering.
In 1984, he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages. ==Biography== Wirth was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1934.
Then in 1968, he became Professor of Informatics at ETH Zürich, taking two one-year sabbaticals at Xerox PARC in California (1976–1977 and 1984–1985).
In 1984, he received the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Turing Award for the development of these languages.
Wirth at ACM Turing Award Lecture, 1984 Pascal and its Successors paper by Niklaus Wirth – also includes short biography. A Few Words with Niklaus Wirth The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity, by László Böszörményi, Jürg Gutknecht, Gustav Pomberger (editors).
Major revisions of this book with the new title Algorithms + Data Structures were published in 1985 and 2004.
In 1994, he was inducted as a Fellow of the ACM. ==Publications== His book, written jointly with Kathleen Jensen, The Pascal User Manual and Report, served as the basis of many language implementation efforts in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States and across Europe. His article Program Development by Stepwise Refinement, about the teaching of programming, is considered to be a classic text in software engineering.
A second book, with Martin Reiser, was intended as a programming guide. ==Wirth's law== In 1995, he popularized the adage now named Wirth's law, which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
In his 1995 paper A Plea for Lean Software he attributes it to Martin Reiser. ==See also== 21655 Niklauswirth asteroid Extended Backus–Naur form Wirth syntax notation Bucky bit Wirth–Weber precedence relationship List of pioneers in computer science ==References== ==External links== , ETH Zürich Biography at ETH Zürich Niklaus E.
dpunkt.verlag; Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000.
Major revisions of this book with the new title Algorithms + Data Structures were published in 1985 and 2004.
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